Tuesday 8th July 2025

Opinion

The Language Faculty is promoting intelligence, not artifice

Isaac Asimov’s fantastic short story ‘The Last Question’ has always struck me as vaguely implausible, not because of its depictions of the next trillion-or-so years of human evolution and...

Racism tarnished my European year abroad experience

For linguists and lawyers heading across the Channel in third year, an idyllic continental adventure is not the whole picture

It’s okay to hate tourism in Oxford

Tourists are as much a feature of life as a student at this University...

Academic imperialism and the war on Oxford

For centuries Oxford has balanced town and gown, but increasing college acquisitions are jeopardising the city's very essence

Bibbidy, BOP-iddy, Boo!

The creation of costumes for Oxford bops can make us all wish for a fairy godmother

A Bird’s Eye View of Oxford, Through the Lens of a New York Times Reporter

Sarah Lyall, a New York Times Reporter, tells Alyssa Grossbard about being a journalist at one of the world's most famous newspapers

‘We must save Port Meadow’

Concerned Jericho resident Xenia Sarina Elsaesser studies English and Spanish, St Anne's College

Stressed? Blame the ‘rents

Amelia Peterson talks to psychologist Oliver James about children, Denmark and Oxford wankers

5 Minute Tute: Ed Miliband

Political blogger and Brasenose Politics Lecturer Tom Lubbock explains how Ed beat Dave, and what lies ahead for Labour

Down it…fresher?

If you're reading this with a hangover, you're probably a fresher. If you have a hangover and you're not a fresher, you're probably a...

Oh! Bama, keep on Ba-ROCKIN!

Obama's opponents shouldn't throw a Tea Party just yet.

A view from the (Cam)bridge

Avantika Chilkoti outs rivalry aside, and gives us an insight into The Other Place

The Zurg of British politics

The most interesting thing about Ed Miliband is his face

2:2?! You’ll be hearing from my lawyers

Did you get a 2:2 despite going to literally some lectures? You may have a case against your tutors.

The Big Society’s big secret

Recruiting unpaid Olympic 'Games Makers' is the greatest sham on earth

Which Miliband will it be?

Thoughts on Labour's mammoth leadership election - 134 days and counting.

A Plethora of Celebrations, the Proliferation of Vacations

A comparison between the British and American institutions of Public Holidays

Latin: neither dead nor dying

The increasing popularity of Latin in state schools is an excellent thing, but it is not adequately reflected in Oxfordshire

I’d rather be at Brookes than be a hack

OUCA is just the Union for virgins

19

What's so special about being 19?

Balancing the spirit level

The book that made equality the new political battleground.

Stop callin’, I don’t wanna vote anymore

The phones are ringing off the hook for primary election season in the US

An encounter with Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan's UK ambassador talks foreign policy with Vignesh Ashok

OUCA disgrace

"Just when they promise they've changed, they go and do it again"

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